half-timbered

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half-timbered, half-timber

(of a building, wall, etc.) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture

half-timbered [′haf ¦tim·bərd]

(building construction)

Pertaining to a timber frame building with brickwork, plaster, or wattle and daub filling the spaces between the timbers.

half-timbered

half-timbered

Descriptive of buildings of the 16th and 17th cent. which were built with strong timber foundations, supports, knees, and studs, and whose walls were filled in with plaster or masonry materials such as brick.

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No references found			The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex. The Valley of Fear by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context He was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farmyard, shadowed drearily by the large half-timbered buildings, up to the long line of tumble-down dwelling-houses standing on a raised causeway; but the timely appearance of a cowboy saved him that frustration of a plan he had determined on,--namely, not to get down from his horse during this visit. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context Sophie looked at the close turf, scarred only with last night's wheels, at two ruts which wound round a rickyard, and at the circle of still orchard about the half-timbered house. Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context			half-pipe half-pitch roof half-power beamwidth half-power frequency half-power point half-pulse-repetition-rate delay half-relief half-ripsaw half-round file half-round gutter half-round molding half-shade plate half-shaft half-shift register half-side formulas half-silvered surface half-space landing half-space stair half-span roof half-subtracter half-surface hinge half-through arch half-tide basin half-tide level half-timber house half-timbered half-timbered construction Half-Timbering half-time half-track Half-Track Motor Vehicle half-track tape recorder half-turn half-value layer half-value period half-value thickness half-wave half-wave amplifier half-wave antenna Half-Wave Dipole half-wave plate half-wave rectification half-wave rectifier half-wave transmission line half-wave vibrator half-wavelength Half-Way Covenant half-width half-word I/O buffer halfback Halfdan Kjerulf			Half-Spectrum Property Half-Spectrum Property Unified Complex Hadamard Transform half-staff half-starved Half-step Half-step Half-stock Half-Stocks Half-strained Half-Strength half-subtracter Half-suit Half-suit half-surface hinge Half-sword Half-T Latter Network half-term half-terms half-through arch half-tide half-tide basin half-tide level half-timber half-timber Half-timber house Half-Timber Work Half-timberd half-timbered Half-timbered construction Half-timbering Half-timbering half-time half-time half-time Half-Time Teaching Assistantship half-times half-times half-times half-title half-titles Half-tone Half-tone Half-tone Half-tone half-tones Half-tongue half-track half-track Half-Track Motor Vehicle half-track tape recorder half-tracked half-tracked Half-tracks Half-tracks half-truth Half-truths Half-turn Half-turn

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